but while jackson pushes technology, he doesn't forget his predecessors. and look closely, he's holding the structure of the model used in the original "king kong". >> this is one of the most precious things that i own. because the motion capture stage we have is just through the doors there, i wanted to make sure that everyone that comes into the stage is reminded of how animation began. the connection between me and that 9-year-old boy watching this movie in black and white on tv for the very first time, that connection is so close. >> reporter: maybe it's the boy in him, but he also owns the car from the film "chitty chitty bang bang." but none of that compares to what he has in his own back yard. >> they get smashed up and taken to the dump. fran and i are sentimentally attached. we asked, can we keep the set? and they said, yes. so we dug a whole in a hill and put it into the hill and covered it over with dirt. and it's our sort of guesthouse now. elijah woodard's stayed there. >> reporter: there's a big, round green door. >> exactly as it is in the m